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Jan. 6th, 2005 10:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
teddogNetworking on PCs = Bad.
Networking on Macs running OS 9.1 = Plain Evil.
I love Macs as much as the next person, but it's awful getting older ones to see that they're on a network. Sure, half of my problem was easily solvable. I spent a good 20 minutes trying to figure out why the computer wasn't seeing any connection...
Me: Is the wire even plugged in?
Jen: Yep! Katie put it in.
Sure, it was plugged in at the computer, but not at the switch. One would think you'd realize that something needs to plugged in at both ends in order for it to work. Then I spent another 20 minutes poking at the thing, hoping that it would realize that it could communicate with our ISP. Finally it noticed that, yeah, the carrier signal does exist. So, 40 mintues of work and what do I get? Complaints that Katie and Jen can't see each other on the AppleTalk network. Screw that. I hate networking.
BTW, Wacky Races is a TV series that should be watched on a weekly/daily basis, not all at once. I got the DVD set as a late Christmas gift the other day and attempted to watch as much as possible. Wacky Races is probably one of my favorite American animated series, but my brain went BOOM! after 8 cartoons (about an hour and a half of cartoons, or 4 episodes). The surrealism gets to you, as does some of the more common and repeating jokes.
Two odd things I'm noticed:
1 - I'll give the staff credit on the clean-up the series had. While there's still dirt, scratches, etc on some episodes, the colours are a billon times the quality they were during reruns. Oddly enough, they didn't clean up the end credits, so the colours are dark and muddy. This makes me kinda nostalgic, as that was what the series looked like back when I saw the reruns on Teletoon.
2 - No mention of Heatter-Quigley Productions in the packaging or copyright. Wacky Races was a co-production between Heatter-Quigley and Hanna-Barbera, resulting in Heatter-Quigley usually getting a co-creator mention somewhere on the product. No such luck here. :/
Dastardly & Muttley in their Flying Machines is coming out this year, but I don't quite remember that series. It stars my favorite Hanna-Barbera characters of all time, but I have no clue how good or bad the show was. Personally, I'm holding out for Yogi's Treasure Hunt myself, which pitted Dick Dastardly and Muttley against 90% of the Hanna-Barbera catalog.
Networking on Macs running OS 9.1 = Plain Evil.
I love Macs as much as the next person, but it's awful getting older ones to see that they're on a network. Sure, half of my problem was easily solvable. I spent a good 20 minutes trying to figure out why the computer wasn't seeing any connection...
Me: Is the wire even plugged in?
Jen: Yep! Katie put it in.
Sure, it was plugged in at the computer, but not at the switch. One would think you'd realize that something needs to plugged in at both ends in order for it to work. Then I spent another 20 minutes poking at the thing, hoping that it would realize that it could communicate with our ISP. Finally it noticed that, yeah, the carrier signal does exist. So, 40 mintues of work and what do I get? Complaints that Katie and Jen can't see each other on the AppleTalk network. Screw that. I hate networking.
BTW, Wacky Races is a TV series that should be watched on a weekly/daily basis, not all at once. I got the DVD set as a late Christmas gift the other day and attempted to watch as much as possible. Wacky Races is probably one of my favorite American animated series, but my brain went BOOM! after 8 cartoons (about an hour and a half of cartoons, or 4 episodes). The surrealism gets to you, as does some of the more common and repeating jokes.
Two odd things I'm noticed:
1 - I'll give the staff credit on the clean-up the series had. While there's still dirt, scratches, etc on some episodes, the colours are a billon times the quality they were during reruns. Oddly enough, they didn't clean up the end credits, so the colours are dark and muddy. This makes me kinda nostalgic, as that was what the series looked like back when I saw the reruns on Teletoon.
2 - No mention of Heatter-Quigley Productions in the packaging or copyright. Wacky Races was a co-production between Heatter-Quigley and Hanna-Barbera, resulting in Heatter-Quigley usually getting a co-creator mention somewhere on the product. No such luck here. :/
Dastardly & Muttley in their Flying Machines is coming out this year, but I don't quite remember that series. It stars my favorite Hanna-Barbera characters of all time, but I have no clue how good or bad the show was. Personally, I'm holding out for Yogi's Treasure Hunt myself, which pitted Dick Dastardly and Muttley against 90% of the Hanna-Barbera catalog.
